US Mint Sales: Arches Quarters and Coins Debut

Arches National Park Quarters and five ounce silver coins debuted last week

Last week the United States Mint introduced seven products featuring Arches National Park, the third of the five 2014-dated designs from the series of America the Beautiful Quarters and five ounce silver coins.

The immediate previous ATB products were overshadowed somewhat by 2014 National Baseball Hall of Fame Commemorative Coins that stole collectors’ attention, though they still compiled solid to very strong sales numbers. Arches quarters and coins launched during a slower seasonal month, but they also performed well.

Debut Sales of 2014-P Arches 5 Oz Silver Coin

Orders for the 2014-P Arches Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin opened at 21,301 from Thursday to Sunday. The starting pace is the quickest of any in the series since 2011. This year’s first five ounce coin honoring Great Smoky Mountains National Park did open higher at 21,415, but this initial total was from a longer reporting period of a Monday through to Sunday. The previous coin celebrating Shenandoah National Park hit 21,120 during its Thursday to Sunday opening. For more on the topic, read this this coin news article.

Debut Sales of Arches Quarters

Six products with Arches National Park quarters launched on Monday, June 9, 2014. Available options include bags and rolls of circulating-quality coins struck in Denver, Philadelphia and San Francisco with mint marks of ‘D’, ‘P’, and ‘S’.

Two-roll sets of P and D quarters led with unit sales of 7,399 followed by three-roll sets of D, P and S quarters at 5,957. Ranking third and fourth were single rolls and bags of S quarters at 2,656 and 2,485. Next in line were bags of Arches quarters from the Philadelphia Mint at 1,715 and bags from the Denver Mint at 1,693. The total number of Arches quarters sold in the first couple of days reached 2,002,300, which is lower than the 2,211,600 sales start of the prior 2014 Shenandoah quarter and the 2,186,480 debut of the first 2014-dated quarters for Great Smoky Mountains.

Arches quarters and coins were among the most popular U.S. Mint products of the week. Here is the weekly top-ten listing:

US Mint Top Selling Numismatic Products of the Week

2014-P Arches Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin (+21,301)

2014 Proof Set (+11,738 to 374,880)

2014-W Proof Silver Eagle (+10,432 to 581,321)

2014-P&D Arches Quarters Two-Roll Set (+7,399)

2014 Silver Proof Set (+6,513 to 254,868)

2014 Mint Set (+6,367 to 199,143)

2014-P, D & S Arches Quarters Three-Roll Set (+5,957)

2014 Baseball HOF Proof 50c Clad Coins (+3,222 to 184,565)

2014-S Arches Quarters Roll (+2,656)

2014 Presidential $1 Coin Proof Set (+2,614 to 164,673)

2014 Baseball HOF Uncirculated 50c Clad Coins (+2,613 to 105,434)

2014-S Arches Quarters 100-Coin Bag (+2,485)

2014 Proof Gold Eagle 1 oz (+2,340 to 13,324)

2014-P Arches 100-Coin Bag (+1,715)

2014-D Arches 100-Coin Bag (+1,693)

This week the U.S. Mint reported sales updates to 242 numismatic products. Of those with a sales history of at least two weeks, 96 outperformed their previous weekly sales compared to 80 previously. Ten products increased by more than 1,000, matching the amount in the prior report.

Sales Overview for 50c Baseball Coins

2014 50c National Baseball Hall of Fame Commemorative Coins advanced 5,835 compared to the prior week’s increase of 6,783. Orders of the halves total 289,999 for 38.7% of the maximum 750,000. Sales are at 184,565 for the proof and 105,434 for the uncirculated for percentage splits of 63.6% and 36.4%.

Update on Sold Out Great Smoky Mountains Silver Coin

Sales of the 2014-P Great Smoky Mountains Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin ended four weeks ago. Last week’s report trimmed its total by 15 and this latest report cut it by 14 to 24,711.

US Mint Sales: Numismatic Products

Below are tables showing the latest sales for U.S. Mint numismatic products. The sales period covers June 9, 2014 to June 15, 2014. Products with an asterisk (*) are no longer available.

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US Mint Sales Report Sources

The US Mint provides CoinNews.netweekly sales figures for its collector coin products. It is these reports that are used as the source for our articles on the subject. The bureau on its website also publishes updated bullion coin sales every weekday. These US Mint sales are presented in our daily gold articles.